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seated between this lady and myself on the same couch, I therefore 
could not get an opportunity of speaking to her. 
" Monday, September 23. — I went out this morning with the 
Ras, as I imagined on a hunting excursion, the dogs and atten- 
dants having accompanied us ; but found that, instead of hunting 
after birds, all his train was set to clear the weeds from the wheat 
and teff growing on each side of the stream that runs by Ozoro s 
mansion. 
" This amiable Princess manages her fields so well, that she al- 
ways gets three crops in a year, having trenches cut to let the water 
from the river upon the land whenever it is requisite. I remained 
an hour, and then returned to the house. It is as customary for 
the Ras to go out on these parties with an empty stomach, as to 
go to sleep with a full one, both which habits are so different from 
what I had been used to, that 1 was sometimes made very uncom- 
fortable from being obliged to adopt them. 
" I rejoined the Ras about three in the afternoon, and returned 
with him at four to Ozoro's dinner, which was much the same as 
yesterday. Here I again met Ozoro Romai, sister to the late mo- 
narch Tecla Georgis. I had a fuller view of this lady now than 
when we met last ; and while the Ras was engaged in conversation 
with his chief in front, I whispered a word to her through the head 
feeder. She had the remains of a fine person and a beautiful coun- 
tenance, with a fair skin ; from her appearance, I should have 
judged her to be no more than thirty or thirty-five years of age. 
I enquired after Ozoro Mantwaub, and asked the reason why she 
did not join the Ras in public ; to which she replied, that it was 
not the Ras's pleasure, otherwise she would be very glad. This 
